solitudo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin sōlus

Proto-Indo-European *-tu-

Proto-Indo-European *-d-

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Italic *tūdō

Latin -tūdō

Latin sōlitūdō

From sōlus (“alone; solitary, deserted”) + -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [soː.lɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [so.liˈtuː.do]

Noun

sōlitūdō f (genitive sōlitūdinis); third declension

1. An instance of being alone; loneliness, solitariness, solitude, privacy
2. A lonely place; desert, wilderness
3. A state of want, destitution, deprivation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sōlitūdō	sōlitūdinēs
genitive	sōlitūdinis	sōlitūdinum
dative	sōlitūdinī	sōlitūdinibus
accusative	sōlitūdinem	sōlitūdinēs
ablative	sōlitūdine	sōlitūdinibus
vocative	sōlitūdō	sōlitūdinēs

Related terms

• sōlicanus
• sōliloquium
• sōlitāneus
• sōlitārius
• sōlitās
• sōlitātim
• sōlum
• sōlummodo
• sōlus

Descendants

• Catalan: solitud
• English: solitude
• French: solitude
• Italian: solitudine
• Portuguese: solidão, solitude
• Romanian: solitudine
• Spanish: soledumbre, solitud

References

• “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "solitudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “solitudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)